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Wait for a few seconds and you should see the box with the unallocated disk showing the text "Formatting".Go through the wizard, clicking Next and finally Finish.If you require more information, go to the WD Community Link for partitioning hard disk using Disk Management here. You can right-click on the blue bar and select Delete Volume. If it has a blue bar, it means it has already been partitioned and formatted. Right-click on this box and select New Partition. There should be a disk that is unallocated.Right-click and select Run As to start the program as admin. Alternatively, go to Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management. This will bring you to a window called Computer Management. Right-click on Computer from the Start Menu and then click on Manage.Step 4: Partition hard disk using Disk Management ( wd community link) If you run Smartware, it will says "No writable WD SmartWare partition found". KillDisk Kill completely clears the HD, including partitions.
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exe installation file and Run As admin and enter your password for the admin account. I used KillDisk's Kill option.This has to be installed using admin access. Step 3: Reformat the My Passport hard disk. So, I formatted the hard disk just to be sure that everything is gone. Reconnect and you will find that My Passport no longer appears.Īt this point, I tried to access the hard disk using another two Windows machines and the My Passport icon no longer appears in My Computer. Once the updater is finished, click Exit.The updater will scan the drive this may take a few minutes. Click Accept the End User’s License Agreement (EULA).Unzip the file and double click to open the Firmware Updater.Download the Firmware Updater for Windows.Disconnect all other external drives from the computer except for the My Passport hard drive you want to update.Wait 10 seconds and turn on or reconnect.Once the utility has found your drive, click Configure Drive and then click Exit.Double click on WDSmartWareVirtualCDManagerforWindows-v1.0.7.4.exe.Unzip the file using any extraction program.Download VCD Manager WDSmartWareVirtualCDManagerforWindows-v1.0.7.4.zip for Windows to your desktop.I had switched the two the other way round because when I did Step 2 first, it couldn't remove the VCD Manager when it couldn't detect the My Passport drive. Thanks to for his tip on Step 1 and Step2. I've compiled steps I have taken, some from helpful websites, and others my own, to hopefully help someone who wishes to remove the smartware from their WD hard disk.
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So, through several helpful websites, I am able to remove/deactivate the software and do the usual drag-drop or copy-paste to the hard disk like all other hard disk, which with the Smartware, I could not do. The administrator access was given to me purely for installation purpose.
#WD VIRTUAL CD MANAGER DOWNLOAD INSTALL#
I had run as adminstrator to install the Smartware and now it is backing up the "Document" folder for that administrator account, which is inaccessible to me and not useful to my work. This does not help because this is a university machine with access privileges set up. The Smartware software in the hard disk do not allow me to do this but instead lets me backup the entire "Document" folder. But, soon I was having difficulty getting the folders I want to backup. I bought a sleek WD Passport 500GB recently to backup my work in a networked Windows XP machine.
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